Manifolding-book.



I. H. RICE.

MANIPOLDING BOOK.

APILIOATION FILED JULY 5,'1907.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

IRWIN H. RICE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

' MANIFOLDINaBooK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mal'. 22, 1910.

Application filed July 5, 1907. -Serial No. 382,365.

and useful Manifolding-Book, of which the following is va specification.

This invention relates to manifoldino' C books and the main object of the invention is to provide a certain construction and arrangement of the leaves and the duplicating carbons, whereby a single writing of the entry will cause the entry to be produced upon three sections of the leaf.

rThe accompanying' drawings illustrate the invention and referring thereto :W y

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the book opened with a leaf partially raised to permit of the turning in of the two carbons, the two carbons being shown opened out. Fig. 2 is a reverse side of the sheet. Fig. 3 is a view of the obverse side of the sheet. Fig. 4 is a section, enlarged, taken trans versely through the book showing the top cover of the book opened, and the arrangement of the respective carbons and sheets in position ready for the entry to be made.

1 designates the bottom cover which is A relatively thick to afford the requisite stiffness and which is suitably covered with cloth 2, or other material. The bottom 1 is connected by a flexible back 3 with the top cover 4, the latter being also covered with cloth or other suitable binding material. A binding device 5, which may be of any desired construction, holds the leaves 6 in place in the book. A strong piece of Manila paper 7 lies between'the leaves 6 and the lower cover 1 with its inner edge fastened in the binder and turned over the inner edges of the leaves, as shown, and has a flap 8 which may be turned over the top sheet to protect the carbons and leaves when the book is closed. When making the entry in the book'the flap 8 is turned back together with the cover 4, the cover 4 being opened toward the left and the flap 8 being swung toward the right.

Each leaf 6 is formed in three sections comprising an inner section 9, an intermediate section 10 and an outer section 11, sections 9 and 11 being divisible from the intermediate section 10 along the lines of scoring 12 and 13. The inner section 9 has a wide margin 14 which, if desired, may be utilized for binding purposes, and is joined to a stub 14 that is received in the binding device 5 and the inner section 9 is adapted to be torn from the stub 14 along the edge 15 of the Manila paper 7, being preferably scored at that point. A lower carbon 16`is pasted at 17, as shown in Fig. 4, to the Ma nila paper 7 near the outer edge of the book and this carbon is adapted lto be inserted between the outer section 11 and intermediate section 10 of `the uppermost leaf as indicated in Fig. 4. The carbon 16 when inserted in such position lies with its plain upper face in contact with `the under side of the section 11 of the leaf, while the lower coated face lies upon the intermediate section 10 of the leaf. An upper carbon 18 has one edge bound in the book under the upper fold of the manila 7 and, when in position, lies between the intermediate section 10 of the fleaf and lthe inner section 9, the plain upper surface being neXt to the under side of the intermediate section 10 of the leaf and the under coated surface lying against the innersection 9 of the leaf.

The leaf is folded, as shown, in the form of the letter Z with the two carbons between the two folds of the sheet, and when so folded the outer section 11 of the obverse side of thesheet is uppermost and adapted to be written upon. The three sections 9, 10 and 11 of the sheet are provided with similar printed instructions and blanks, and the intermediate section is printed with the similar instructions and blanks on the opposite side. Thus the obverse side of the sheet shows sections 9 and 11 as having the sameprinting, while the reverse side of the sheet shows the middle Section 10 provided with this printing. On the opposite side of each section may be printed conditions or any other data of a general nature as indicated. The sheet thus being folded as above described, with the carbons in position, by writing on the obverse side ofthe outer section which is uppermost the same writing will be duplicated by the carbons on sections 9 and 10. After writing the desired matter, the sheet may be pulled up as shown in Fig. 1, the carbon sheets turned out of their place, then the sheet may be detached from the book along the scoring at the edge of the fold of the Manila paper 7 and then the sheet may be separated into its three parts by being torn at the scorings 12 and 13, thereby producing three separate sheets which are duplicates of each other. The

remainder of the leaves in the book may be arranged with the carbons and written upon in turn in the same manner until all of the sheets are used up.

An important advantage of this construction is that the leaf is so folded that openings are formed at the left side and at the right side thereof, into which openings it is an easy matter to turn the carbons, and it is impossible for even a careless person, or one who is in a hurry, to inadvertently arrange the carbon sheets wrong side up; the printing of the intermediate section of the leaf on the face opposite to that of the printing of the inner and outer sections make it possible to arrange the carbons so that the carbons may fold in from both sides and both lie with their coated faces down in natural position for receiving the impression which is transmitted to them through the sheet above them.

What I claim is In a manifolding book, a back member, a pack of leaves secured together and to the back member at the inner end and each leaf having an inner, intermediate, and outer section, said sections being duplicates of each other, each leaf being folded with its intermediate section between the inner and outer sections, a protecting sheet secured at its inner end to said inner end of the pack and overlapping the same on top and having itsl remaining portion extending outward under the pack with its central portion folded up over the outer end of the pack and its free end adapted to be folded back on top of the pack toward said inner end thereby extending completely around said pack, a carbon sheet secured at one edge to said inner end of the pack under the inner end of the protecting sheet, with its free edge adapted to be inserted between the inner and intermediate sections of said leaves, and a carbon sheet secured at one edge to the protecting sheet at the outer end of the pack of said leaves with its free edge adapted to be in sert-ed between the intermediate and outer sect-ions of said leaves, said leaves being scored along the inner overlapping end of said protecting sheet and adapted to be torn along said end.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 26th day of June 1907.

IRWIN H. RICE. In presence of- GEORGE T. HACKLEY, FRANK L. A. GRAHAM. 

